While we still have a day to pass before the doorstep arrival of candy-coveting ghosts and goblins (which, in reality, will be more of an arrival of superheroes and princesses), the Saturday before Halloween has become the de facto night for ghoulish get-togethers.

BURROUGHS HIGH — For the most part, the Burroughs High girls' volleyball squad experienced little trouble getting past the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division II-A playoffs.
Granted, the Indians were expecting their first match of...

Concern about movie piracy is shifting from black-market DVD copies made overseas to Internet users at home, and unions representing thousands of studio workers are pushing federal regulators to take a stronger stand.
Last week, attorneys for the...

Representatives for Republican Assembly candidate Sunder Ramani are arguing that his opponent is dodging opportunities to participate in debates ahead of the June 8 runoff election to represent Glendale, Burbank and parts of Los Angeles.
Ramani...

OLIVE PARK — For most of the Hap Minor Baseball season, players were mainly concerned with team-orientated goals, like winning divisional titles.
But at the 54rd annual Burbank Civitan Club Baseball Jamboree, it was a time for individual...

Tom Hanks and director Paul Greenglass are an odd couple for the new “Captain Phillips.” Hanks is of course best known for playing the Guy You Immediately Like in slick Hollywood films. Greenglass' signature style — in movies like “Bourne” 2 and 3, “United 93” and “Bloody Sunday” — includes a lot of fast-moving handheld camerawork and a gritty feel. Yes, the “Bourne” movies are big Hollywood productions, but they do their best to...

In Walt Disney Studios' remake of "The Lone Ranger," the masked lawman and his loopy sidekick, Tonto, stop a runaway train, are beaten by bad guys and besieged by scorpions, and blow up a massive bridge with dynamite — all while trying to avenge the death of the Lone Ranger's brother and save his wife and child.
The stakes for the studio might be even higher. Disney is making a big bet on a character that is largely unfamiliar to the young moviegoers who are the key demographic for big summer...

Lawmakers and movie studios battling piracy of copyrighted material this week unveiled a list of rogue states and a campaign to persuade U.S. corporations to pull their support from websites that allow users to illegally download films, television shows and music.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and other members of the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus on Thursday unveiled a watch list of countries where they say piracy is the worst. Like last year, the list includes China, Russia, Canada and...

Anne and Richard Lainhart love to throw big parties. But not just any kind of parties. The couple throws massive themed parties, sometimes hosting up to 150 attendees, that require great attention to historical details, including the sets, costumes, games and food — lots of food.
Several years ago, when the Lainharts wanted to celebrate their 50th birthdays with a joint soiree, they came up with a pirate theme. After all, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl” was a...